The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-12-22
NOTES BY A WESTERN FANCIER.


have been in the South but a few
months, but from our observation it
is our opinion that the poultry breed
ers of the South have much to do
and large field for labor.
The poultry OF this country Cat
least that that we have seem, is far
inferior to that raised and marketed
in the North. Southern poultry,
which we have observed, and that
exposed for sale at places of market,
are for the most part miserable,
sickly, small runts, not fit to eat.
1t is the duty of the fancier and
breeder to impress upon the minds
Of the farmer that it will pay to i'm
prove his stock; that it is no more
trouble to raise good fowl, and less
expense, than it is bad one. Make
him understand it will pay, and when
the start is made the whole commune
ty will follow suit.
1t is true the soil of the South, at
last some sections, does not possess
advantages which most parts of the
North afford, that is it lacks animal
and vegetable matter, but these can
be supplied by good judgment in
feeding. In localities where the
earth lacks animal matter, meat
scraps, fish refuse from the fish stall,
ETC., will be found to be excellent
substitutes and will supply one OF
the necessaries in raising good poul-
try, as fowls must have certain
quantity OF animal food, and when it
cannot be found in the soil we must
supply them with it. They must
also have vegetable matter, and when
the grasses of the yard is not suffi-
cient then substitute must be found
for this. Cabbage leaves, lettuce,
kale, turnip tops, in fact anything
fresh and green will be eaten by
them with relish and will be found
to be greatly beneficial III forming
| bone and muscle and in forming a
large plump fowl.
They must have certain amount
of substance for forming the shell of
the egg if we expect them to be egg
producers, and when the soil does
not furnish this in sufficient quanti-
ty, oyster she'll, bone meal, the ashes
from the coal fire, and even glass
pounded up in proper bits, all come
in as Institutes.
We also hear much complaint of
disease in poultry in the South.
Stock of any kind, when continually
inter-bread without change of blood,
must necessarily, by one of the UNI
changeable laws of nature, become
in time weak, small and Sickly, and
this is one of the leading causes of
bad poultry in the South. The
South ofe the poultry raiser the
aaga mild winter, an early
81 .6g - i i5 climate, advan-
tages that cannot ell be substituted
by~Northern br ders. Then all
thSt@ necessary the Southern
breeder is to exercise Rroper care.
and Judgment in seIes Ind breed
ing his stock, 81 teaaRg
and caring for
remedy for diseases III
for any disease that ma
flock, warm, airy, clea
poultry. can be mad
able Of dns>k&k
A few shol As ~
girl was the , 6nifcation 3
vigor and beauty, The blusS
her cheeks, riyailed that of then s
her step was light an6S.Noyant.
every movemenS-e 90 violation u
perfect physical III Yet now
she is pallid and haggard, and her
superabundant vitality has given
place to a strange dullness and lassi-
tude. What has caused this change ?
Functional Irregularities, which can
be cured by DR.. Pierce's "Favorite
Prescription" a remedy to which
thousands of women to-day owe their